Motor-vehicle.



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MOTOR VEHICLE.

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WILLIAM JAMES LANE AND GEORGE LANE, OF POUGIIKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

MOTOR-VEHICLE.

SPEGIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 690,371, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed May 8,1901. Serial No. 59,327. (No model.)

T @ZZ wtmn t may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM J AMES LANE and GEORGE LANE, citizens of the United States, residing at Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specitication.

Our invention relates to motor-vehicles ot the type adapted to be operated by steam.

Our invention consists in a special arrangement for the lues through which the products of combustion from the burner passing the boiler are discharged from the vehicle.

The object of our invention is to discharge the products of combustion from the burner in a downward direction and rearwardly of the vehicle whether the vehicle be at rest or in motion.

The accompanying drawings, which show two constructions by which ourinvention may be carried into effect, will serve to illustrate our invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section taken through a motor-vehicle and showing a watertank, boiler, and engine with its connection in elevation and a portion of the escape-dues for the products of combustion in section. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 is a section corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing a modification. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 3.

In the drawings, represents the body of a motor-vehicle. Any suitable shape or construction of body may be made use of.

11 is a vertical-tube boiler, 12 a burner located under boiler, and 13 a horizontal due situated over the boiler and communicating with the downwardly-directed lues 14 and 15, Figs. 1 and 2, and 14 and 15, Figs. 3 and 4.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the downwardly-directed tlue 14 is divided to form two flues, situated, preferably, at opposite sides of the front of the boiler and connected at their bottom with a transverse ue 16, which is connected to and adapted to discharge into a longitudinal flue 17. The flue 14a in Figs. 3 and4is a single flue and located at one side of the back of the boiler and adapted to discharge below the vehicle. The tlue 15 in Figs. 1 and 2 is carried directly backward from the horizontal flue 13 and then turned downward at its outer end.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the exhaust-pipe discharges' into the tlue 17 and in Figs. 3 and 4 into the horizontal l'lue 13.

The operation of the device will be readily understood. When the vehicle is at rest, the products of combustion passing the boiler -are discharged through the flue 15 or 15;

when the vehicle is in motion and aided by the injector action ot the exhaust-steam from the pipe 21, through the downwardly-carried fine 14 and its connecting-dues 16 and 17, Figs. 1- and 2, or through the downwardlycarried flue 14, Figs. 3 and 4.

By the arrangement of dues described all products of combustion passing the boiler will be caused to traverse a downward path whenv passing from the horizontal ue over the boiler to and being discharged into the atmosphere.

The advantages of this construction are that the heated products of combustion will be discharged at the rear of the vehicle and in planes where they will not be picked up by moving air-currents, especially those moving from the rear of the vehicle, and driven directly upon the occupants of the vehicle. Thus the objectionable features of heat and unpleasant odors from the products of combustion now common with motorvehicles where the products of combustion are discharged partially in a downward direction and partially in an upward direction are done away with.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- 1'. In a motor-vehicle, the combination of a boiler, a horizontal flue located over the boiler,

and two downwardly-'discharging tlues con-` nected to said horizontal due.

2. In a motor-vehicle, the combination of a boiler, a horizontal flue located over the boiler,

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two downwardly-diseharging fl nes, and means for increasing the draft in one of said lines.

3. In a motor-vehicle, the combination of a boiler, a horizontal flueloeated over the boiler, and two downwardly-discharging lines oonneeted to said horizontal Hue and having their discharge-openings located in different planes.

4. In a motor-vehicle, the Combination of a boiler, ahorizontal iiueloeated over the boiler, a short fine carried from the back of the horizontal flue and discharging downwardly, a pair of fines situated in front of the boiler and connected to the horizontal fine, said flues connected at their lower ends to a transverse line, and said transverse flue to a longitudinally-disposed downwardly-discharging iine.

5. In a motor-vehicle, the Combination of a boiler, a horizontal flue located over the boiler, a rearwardly projecting downwardly discharging fine connected to said horizontal 2o -WILLIAM JAMES LANE.

GEORGE LANE.

Witnesses:

J. E. PEARsoN, GEO. H. BENJAMIN. 

